Because you failed a class and your pet passed away? Shoot, I understand you're bummed, but giving up? C'mon now.

Sometimes claiming you're 'giving up' is a reasonable reaction, even if it's rarely really the case. Grief can be very therapeutic, as is well known. Grief can also be a preventative of action, and one should be very wary of that. We mustn't let grief overcome the possibility of action.

Losing a pet can be devastating. A lot of us have been there. It's best to channel the emotion in some form and do something constructive with it. Like Efrim did with A Silver Mt. Zion's first album.

I just found out I failed out physics GRE horribly and going to put my dog to sleep tomorrow due to poor health. I'm at the lowest point of my life and on the verge of giving up. I have a take home exam to keep me busy but fuck...

I've lost many pets in my life. 4 cats, 2 dogs, 2 guinnea pigs, hamster, fish, its never easy. My last cat and last dog were the hardest for sure, as I was older and could understand what was going on better, especially since my dog I got was when he was a puppy and I was 3 (put him to sleep when I was 17 or 18). Shit sucks, but you just gotta do what you do and move on. Play an instrument? Good hobby? Put everything into that and be productive!

YouTube did their first ever YouTube Music Awards show today and it was dumb, but Girls Generation beat out Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber for video of the year and Gomez/Bieber fans are FUCKING PISSED

Definitely, and the sad fact is, if you insist on having pets, you can't get -too- hung up on them dying. It's definitely sad if you form an attachment to them. I remember it being terrible when the cat my family adopted died, but after that it was a very easy decision simply to not have any more pets. In a slightly cold kind of way, we all decided it's too sad and painful when a pet you love dies, so why create that situation?

YouTube did their first ever YouTube Music Awards show today and it was dumb, but Girls Generation beat out Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber for video of the year and Gomez/Bieber fans are FUCKING PISSED